{"id":218839,"date":"2026-04-04T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:26:07","slug":"driver-detained-after-striking-deputys-cruiser-during-fatal-crash-investigation-in-nw-miami-dade-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218839\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver detained after striking deputy\u2019s cruiser during fatal crash investigation in NW Miami-Dade \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was detained in Northwest Miami-Dade on Saturday after being accused of striking a deputy&#8217;s vehicle during a fatal crash investigation, authorities said <\/p>\n<p>According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office, at around 11:55 p.m. on Friday, a vehicle crashed into a tree on Northwest 135th Street and 57th Avenue, where it caught on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived at the scene, extinguished the flames, and the driver was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Their identity was not released.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, deputies blocked the intersection when a vehicle went through the intersection and struck a cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>MDSO said the cruiser sustained damage, and the deputy had minor injuries and was treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was then detained.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as the investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was detained in Northwest Miami-Dade on Saturday after being accused of striking a deputy&#8217;s vehicle during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-218839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}